We allowed 54-year-old man to marry our 4-year-old daughter to save her life - Parents Parents of the 4-year-old girl married to a 54-year-old man in a Bayelsa State have defended their actions, saying the marriage is a traditional rite to save the child’s life. They claimed that the marriage, conducted in Akeddei community in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa, was a spiritual rite to ‘untie’ the duo who were betrothed in their “previous lives”. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that the girl’s parents, the 54-year-old man, a traditional...